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Adding to the GP, in the context of the USA, US Border control officers can still deny the entry of a visa holder traveler based on whatever. Also, members of visa waiver program c…

I have seen the same stationary overlook on other fields and always blows my mind that people involve would get away with that.

So, I cannot speak how easy/hard is to collect debt abroad but I do know that it is possible for prospective employers to query the credit history. I have recently applied for a jo…

She wouldn’t take the bill as far it is concerned legally (as far as I know and dealt with medical bills myself). She might get mails and phone calls but the collection agency will…

The problem to me looks here > The ER bill was about $50k and she decided that the best way to pay it was by creating a GoFundMe campaign before she even tried to negotiate with th…

It is somewhat limiting the fact that in our industry, challenges related to social and human factors are either dismissed, denied, or taken under negative tone. Social sciences an…

My time in college also taught me a lot on groups. It soon became clear that an A team is very volatile because of egos and motivators are hardly the same. Every time we had groups…

That happens a lot, specially in places selling healthy snacks. I used to work for one of them at certain point and the secret sauce was mostly using tons sugar and/or salt to incr…

And that’s reinforced by advertisement over and over again. While there are so many fun activities not involving alcohol. Seems like most of team building events nowadays boils dow…

Moderation and diversification seems to be a good hedge for a healthy portfolio. That and also cooking more at home, be in contact with your food is a way to eat simpler and for me…

I find that there is much more smoking (including indoor) and drinking in Denmark than most of any other place I lived, or maybe I am just older now and can’t the hangovers are muc…

True, specially when management is much more invested financially in the company than rank and file engineers. That happens a lot in European startup scene from my observations (as…

Mine: Being a tech lead with a lot of people management involved.

Changing jobs is very stressful for me. I have put up with a lot of BS to avoid that stress, can seem to get better but worse actually.

It can get worse, when the managers are the ones who wrote the legacy and still are actively acting as individual contributors themselves instead of empowering their own people

genuinely asking, why would not be justifiable? That is tax on personal income and capital gains just like any other.

Actually it is very disfuncional for me to be in a company that communication skills are ahead of technical.

I have been in this situation and tried to remember what was going on while I wrote the questionable code. It frequently came down to a day full of interruptions and context switch…

I am coming back from vacations next week and have 2 PRs to finish (couldn’t merge before because they are high risk), I am antecipating a lot of pain just to pick them up where I …

Denmark, but that’s another discussion around lunch in the office. I personally don’t take it as a benefit.

Your points are balanced and reflects quite well what I look for. I usually have the mindset to be in everyday of the week 9-5 and that’s how I start my week. But realistically, as…

Nordics are the same. I might be wrong, and hope to be, but most of IT is still running few generations behind.

Lol, that is pretty much one of my past employers. They set a daily stand up everyday at 9:30am, so flexible time means I can arrive anytime before that.. One day I missed a stand-…

Yes, I have seen that in one of my past job. Most of the political attrition came from managers of other divisions that required face time and perception of dedication. OTOH, I als…

We have the chance to participate in the US too, now to what extend it is effective, I don’t know. For example, even in big cities like NYC, there are public meetings about the pro…